python vs d

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/30/2014 1:05 PM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-04-30 at 16:38 +0000, Brian Rogoff via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> […]
>> Right, it's not the significant indentation which perplexes you,
>> but the complete lack of compile time checking from Python. I'm
>> perplexed that anyone could prefer that too, but I suppose those
>> programmers who are way smarter than me and don't make any
>> mistakes find types burdensome, or are always writing correct
>> code that can't be type checked by any current checker.
>
> I believe it is not that at all. Writing code using a dynamic language
> is a totally different mind set to working with a static language,

I've heard this a lot, but I've yet to hear anyone explain concretely 
how this "dynamic mindset" causes the lack of things like static code 
checks and low-overhead primitives from being actual drawbacks. Maybe it 
really is a case of me not "getting it", but it always sounds to me like 
this "dynamic mindset" gets around these issues simply by ignoring them. 
Since I don't personally do heavy development in dynamic languages, I'd 
be interested in a strong rebuttal to this.